She couldn’t bear to utter the tale of how he’d struck his own throat time and again.
Cryer did not particularly chastise her. He merely observed.
His eyes, the color of a moonless black night, were utterly unreadable.
In the previous regression, and even now….
“You seem to need help.”
“My mind is fine! And why are you being formal again…. No! Don’t go!”
Despite her desperate protests, Cryer did not stop.
Olivia’s instincts whispered to her. If she let him go here, she’d once again fall prey to him in this life.
She wanted to live.
So, she decided to use every means at her disposal.
But she didn’t expect to be clutching at his coattails so soon.
“How much do you need!”
Hanging onto Cryer, the cause of the continental war, who was attempting to leave the private chamber ignoring her, Olivia held onto his coattails.
However, as Cryer moved without paying her any mind, Olivia was dragged along.
“Let go.”
“No!”
Cryer, who had been moving towards the door with her still hanging onto one leg, looked down at Olivia, who was demonstrating her resolve not to let go, and opened his mouth.
“Let go.”
“No way! How much do you need! Or, what do you need! What can I do to stop the war!”
Cryer, who had been reaching towards Olivia, paused at her continuous words.
“A slave! I don’t know what the contract is, but I will end that contract… Ugh!”
Olivia was unable to finish her sentence as she met Cryer’s abyssal gaze.
He leaned down to her nose and growled.
“Who told you that I’m a slave?”
“Hic… hic… hic.”
As the distance between them suddenly became almost zero, Olivia hiccupped out of the blue and covered her mouth with both hands, her shoulders shaking.
Cryer deeply gazed at her as if to see through her and bared his vicious teeth.
“Who are you?”
“A dove of peace!”
…Dove… Peace…
In the private room, Olivia’s voice echoed.
Cryer looked down at Olivia with an indescribable expression for a moment. He then grabbed Olivia’s arm and lifted her.
“What did you just say.”
“Pea… peace’s do…ve. Symbol of peace….”
Cryer put her down on the sofa after moving her away in his strong hold.
Ensuring she couldn’t escape by trapping her arms, Cryer whispered.
“Good. Dove of peace. I’ll ask again. Who gave you this information?”
“You… you! You! I say!”
Olivia retorted with all her strength.
For a moment, Cryer looked at her without blinking. Then, a crease formed between his brows.
“It’s not a lie.”
“Of course, it’s not a lie! I heard it from you!”
“I said it with my own mouth.”
“Yes! You said I’m a slave and must do as I’m told. You! From your mouth!”
After spitting out the words all at once, Olivia took a deep breath and then added.
“In the previous life.”
As a deeper crease formed between his brows than before, Olivia hurriedly added.
“Explanation! I’ll explain.”
Olivia summarized and listed everything she experienced in her previous life and her regression in front of Cryer.
“It may be hard to believe, but anyway, it happened….”
As Olivia was finishing her sentence, Cryer reached out to her.
While she was shocked, she didn’t avoid his hand. Confirming her deeply resigned look, Cryer drew back his hand.
“You certainly seem to have tasted death.”
“Of course! I died four times at your hands.”
Olivia thrust out her chest and tapped it, sending a signal to trust her, and then lowered her head deeply.
It was quite depressing to ask the man who had killed her numerous times to believe that he had killed her.
Then, she suddenly raised her head.
No! Even having a long conversation with this man is a sign of hope!
With clenched fists and shining eyes, Olivia listened as Cryer asked her,
“Done with your onewoman show?”
“Uh… Um.”
As the awkwardly clenched fist loosened and Olivia innocently brought her hands together towards her belly, Cryer chuckled.
“Your speech and behavior don’t match the imperial princess. Besides, for someone who has died and come back to life four times, you’re too lighthearted.”
“You taught me that before death, a princess or whatever is all equal. A fact that I did not want to realize at all, four times over. And I felt it about four times when I died and returned.”
“What?”
“If my reality is a slum, I need to react and act quickly and lightly so that I don’t fall deeper.”
Olivia swallowed her stiffened throat.
“Well, I’ve already learned through my body that it doesn’t work at all even if I keep my neck stiff and face you in a dignified and elegant way.”
“Surely, it seems like you know me.”
“I know. Is the explanation insufficient?”
“No, that’s enough. After all, I won’t believe it even if I hear more.”
At the decisive answer of Cryer, Olivia, who was about to open her mouth again, he reached out and Olivia reflexively cringed her neck and squeezed her eyes.
“You don’t need to be so alert now. I won’t kill you now. You’ve died and you know. Whether you’re alert or not, I can kill you anytime.”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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